People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who …

- Esperanza Spalding

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

- Esperanza Spalding

For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining s…

- Esperanza Spalding

The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my hear…

- Esperanza Spalding

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

- Esperanza Spalding

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

- Esperanza Spalding

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

- Esperanza Spalding

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody ca…

- Esperanza Spalding

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

- Esperanza Spalding